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Community participatory techniques: Have such techniques been able to make an impact
Sulania, Anika
Rasheed, Nazish
India remains far from attaining the goal of health for all proposed by WHO during 1977 to be achieved by 2000. According to WHO, Alma-Ata Declaration of 1978, “The people have a right and duty to participate individually and collectively in the planning and implementation of their health care” [1]. The approach was clearly targeted for communities to achieve a level of health which would permit all individuals to lead a socially useful and economically productive life through primary health care approach. With this statement the focus started shifting towards community development through their participation.
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Indian Journal of Community Health; Vol. 26 No. 4 (2014)
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Mandatory policy: Most successful way to maximize fortification’s effect on vitamin and mineral deficiency
Zimmerman, Sarah
Baldwin, Robert
Codling, Karen
Hindle, Peter
Montgomery, Scott
Pachón, Helena
Maberly, Glen
Background: Damaging effects of vitamin and mineral deficiencies contribute to health and development problems throughout the world. Food fortification has substantially improved nutrition-related health conditions in many countries, but opportunities for fortification are not fully utilized. Where food fortification is considered, leaders have to determine whether fortification should be mandatory or voluntary. Objective: This article explores experiences with mandatory wheat flour fortification as compared to voluntary fortification to offer insight for policies related to any type of food fortification. Mandatory fortification means the country requires the addition of specific nutrients at predetermined levels to specified foods or food products. Voluntary policies allow food manufacturers to enrich their products but do not require them to do so. Results: Mandatory fortification is more likely than voluntary fortification to reach a high proportion of the population and hence achieve the desired health impact. Mandatory fortification does not require consumers to change food purchasing preferences, it distributes the health benefits more equitably than voluntary fortification across a population, it establishes safe levels of included nutrients, and it is not subject to the food manufacturers’ marketing investments or discretion. Conclusion: The health benefits of mandatory fortification are most likely to be achieved and sustained if national, multi-sector leaders develop a cooperative approach for appropriate food fortification policies that can be feasibly implemented and effectively monitored. Mandatory fortification, however, requires high-level commitment through the political process. Policy makers must contend with possible criticism that it interferes with personal choices or may cause unintended health problems.
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Indian Journal of Community Health; Vol. 26 No. Supp 2 (2014)
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"Meet and Greet and Then Treat" is No Fun: Is It Time To Reinvent No-Touch Greetings For Contact Precautions? A Personal Perspective
Gupta, Deepak
Cleanliness in general and in healthcare settings in particular as advocated by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) with hand-hygiene standards-guidelines bring forth the importance of culprit hands and how to take care of them. There is an unexplored (and potentially overlooked) arena/avenue wherein neither you can strictly/religiously adhere to hand-hygiene (often given amiss by our natural prude psyche) nor you can avoid thinking about it despite human being a social animal (how to else-greet without having to self-treat). Not only should oneself not waste time in prolonged civilities or greetings as advocated but also one should not allow those greetings lingering on to them through the exchanged visible or invisible fluids therein. What does this all may mean is that for example, hand-shaking may be easily replaced with hand-waving so that your mind does not immediately race to hand-washing; and hugging may be easily replaced with bowing so that you are not bowing to the contracted illnesses due to the contacted bodies. Finally what to say about kissing that may be avoided altogether when greeting strangers or may be limited for only those people whom you love so much that you are ready to get sick with them. In summary, general population with societal assent can re-invent No-Touch Greetings for contact precautions in regular livelihoods because meeting and greeting and then rushing for treating self is never fun.
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Indian Journal of Community Health; Vol. 27 No. 1 (2015)
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Dengue Preventive Strategies: Third World (My World) Entrepreneurs Wake Up and Please Stand Up
Gupta, Deepak
It has taken me almost 19 years and observing/enduring/ignoring 20 seasons of dengue fever in our country’s capital, Delhi to finally say “Enough is enough”. How many more precious lives dengue will consume before infrastructure resolves to fight back and eradicate dengue. Why the development of vaccine has been difficult for this mosquito borne disease. The good news is that the WHO has promising data accumulation in favor of live attenuated recombinant tetravalent dengue vaccine titled CYD-TDV that has taken up the arduous challenge to counter all four serotypes of dengue virus. Hopefully, by April 2016, the WHO may have their recommendations (if any) about how and when to use CYD-TDV. Subsequently, the ball will be in the court of dengue-endemic nations’ regulatory authorities to take on the implementations of the WHO recommendations. Herein will lay the prerogative of dengue-endemic nations’ physician-entrepreneurs/pharmaceutical-entrepreneurs in the Third World (my world) to take it upon them to ensure that although they have been slow to catch up (already 20 seasons have flown past), they should not miss the train now once the WHO publishes its recommendations in near future so that hopefully, the next season sees the dawn of hope and shifting of gears from economy-draining sluggish anti-dengue campaign to economy-driving future eradicate-dengue campaign initiating from the dengue-endemic nations across the world, including India.
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Indian Journal of Community Health; Vol. 27 No. 4 (2015)
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2018-06-01T07:23:30Z
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Management of SAM Children in India: Current Strategies
Kapil, Umesh
Management of children with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) is being given a high priority in India. This intervention is being implemented for bringing reduction in under five mortality. Children with SAM are 9 times higher risk of mortality as compared to optimally nourished children. There are two strategies for management of Children with SAM namely i) Facility based and ii) Community Based. More than 90% of children can be treated through community based management. The progress of facility based management has been satisfactory in India. However, the programme of community based intervention is slow due to lack of scientific data on impact of indeginous RUTF available in the country. The scientific evidence is being generated through sponsored research studies so that evidence based management of SAM children can be developed.
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Indian Journal of Community Health; Vol. 27 No. Supp 1 (2015)
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2018-06-01T07:22:35Z
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Trend in Infant and Young Child Feeding practices during 2005 – 2015 in India
Kapil, Umesh
Gupta, Aakriti
Background: Optimal infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices during first 2 years of life is the key to ensuring optimal growth and development of the infant. Improving IYCF practices have an important role in reducing morbidity and mortality amongst under 5 children in India. Material & Methods: The secondary data from National Family Health Survey (NFHS)-3 and NFHS- 4 was analyzed. Objective: To assess the trend in IYCF practices during 2005 – 2015 for 13 selected states of India. Results: It was found that over a decade, there has been an improvement in early initiation of breast feeding and exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months amongst infant in 11 out of 13 states. However, a reduction in the timely initiation of complementary feeding amongst children in the age group of 6-8 months has been observed in 9 out of 13 states. Conclusion: There is a need to strengthen the efforts to further improve the IYCF practices in India for reducing high rates of undernutrition in the country.
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Indian Journal of Community Health; Vol. 28 No. 2 (2016)
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2018-06-01T07:22:11Z
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The Need to Address Social Adversities in Community Health
Ruhil, Rohini
The paper is a perspective on the need to address social adversities in community health. Community Health today is restricted generally to clinical epidemiological studies and it is very important to research beyond ‘individual-level’ risk factors and ‘black-box’ epidemiology to a “multi-level eco-epidemiology. The material and social world around us plays a very important role in susceptibility or resistance to disease agents or risk factors. The focus here is on social phenomenon rather than on clinical manifestations of specific diseases or risk factors. The various social phenomenon discussed here include socio-economic status, education, income, poverty, employment, working conditions, job-strain, work-family conflict, social networks, social integration, social isolation, suicides, social security etc. It is recommended to intervene both at individual level as well as at larger structural level to influence government policies and society.
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Indian Journal of Community Health; Vol. 28 No. 3 (2016)
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2018-06-01T07:22:10Z
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A Commentary on Perceived Need from Indian Perspective
Joshi, Ankur
Kale, Saket
Phadnis, Sameer
The current Indian health –care scenario is overwhelmed not only with burden of diseases but also with quality of care and expenditures. The structure of this paper is interwoven around a storyline about a patient and narrations of the active actors involved in the journey of illness including patient himself. The narrations are followed by a commentary as an attempt to decipher the deeper meaning of narration from the population perspectives. The essential aim of this exercise is to establish the necessity of generalist care from a qualitative view-point in Indian context.
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Indian Journal of Community Health; Vol. 28 No. 3 (2016)
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2018-06-01T07:21:45Z
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Dengvaxia®: Prayers Answered or NOT?
Gupta, Deepak
Dengvaxia is the first vaccine against dengue that has been developed after decades of toiling to tame the four-strain dengue virus. The questions have already been raised regarding its non-utility for the younger ones and the seronegative population due to ethical concern of non-maleficence (do-no-harm). It is not clear where this leaves the endemic populations suffering for decades from un-resolving morbidity and mortality burdens of dengue fever, and whether this worsens the dilemma of those populations’ rattled-governments planning to ride the approaching bandwagons of mass vaccination programs against dengue. Irrespective, people and personnel living in dengue-endemic regions should welcome hands down this human endeavour to develop Dengvaxia, the first vaccine against dengue.
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Indian Journal of Community Health; Vol. 28 No. 4 (2016)
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Mandatory Basic Life Support Training: Why NOT In India; Mandatory End-of-Life Care Policy: Why NOT In India; Mandatory Medical Research Requirements: Why SO In India!
Gupta, Deepak
In the world of things and doings, mandatory is a human invention for the times when optional and free-will do NOT get things done. When quality of life gains momentum to catch on with the age-old run for quantity of life, the medical education, medical decision-making and medical policy-making do NOT leave an option for medical practitioners but to follow the mandate as required and warranted by society they cater for. Herein I want to review and discuss some of those potential mandates for practitioners of medicine from the perspective of (a) a person who can be in the hot seat of a patient himself, (b) a physician who can be caught in the dubious scenarios of treating patients similar to himself, and (c) a medical teacher-researcher who till recently as an inquisitive medical student was himself delving with similar questions for the system. In a nutshell, this is my perspective from my limited understanding that basic life support (BLS) training and end-of-life care (EOLC) policy are in need for mandate to being made mandatory whereas medical research requirements (MRR) are in need to be made optional without covert-overt penalties.
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Indian Journal of Community Health; Vol. 29 No. 1 (2017)
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Appropriateness of Hemoglobin Cut Off’s for Defining Anemia
Kapil, Radhika
The use of the hemoglobin cut-off points permits the identification of populations at greatest risk of anemia. The reference cut off’s of Hb also facilitates the monitoring and assessment of progress towards preventing and controlling iron deficiency. These cut off’s also provides the scientific basis for advocacy for the prevention of anemia. There has been continued discussion about the appropriateness of the Cut Off’s used to define anaemia and their applicability to different populations, which has implications for epidemiological surveillance, monitoring, and targeting (1,2).
Haemoglobin concentration is affected by physiological characteristics such as age, sex, and pregnancy status, as well as environmental factors such as smoking and altitude. Several studies have shown that the population distribution of haemoglobin is lower in black people than in white people (1,3,4). Only a few studies from low-income and middle-income countries have, however, examined the applicability of the WHO cut off’s to other populations (4,5).
The haemoglobin cut-offs presented in Table-1 are used to diagnose anaemia in individuals in a screening or clinical setting.
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Choking – A Public Health Problem- Are We Prepared?
Kumar, Amit
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand
Varshney, Saurabh
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand
Tyagi, Amit Kumar
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand
Patro, Sourabha Kumar
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, Rajasthan
Malhotra, Manu
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand
., Madhupriya
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand
Bhardwaj, Abhishek
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand
Choking or acute airway obstruction is the emergency condition which is usually first dealt by general public and only then by health professionals. It has been documented in literature that educating the public about choking hazards and its management can positively affect the incidence of choking events and mortality. (1) In the developed countries, Basic Life Support (BLS) courses and First Aid courses are routinely done by public and are aggressively pursued by government and health care givers but in India there is no such uniform program. Indian Society of Anesthesiologists (ISA) has developed indigenous CPR guidelines and they are also organizing affordable nationwide CPR training modules, at present their program does not deal with the choking, but hopefully as their program will gain more acceptance, they will also incorporate choking modules. (2)
Etiology of choking varies according to the age group and different preventive and management strategies are required for different age groups to tackle this problem. Although data from India is not much, but some common strategies followed by other nations can also be applied to the Indian Population, thus preventing these fatal choking episodes.
We hereby discuss this problem according to different age groups and we have made an attempt to recommend some of the preventive strategies in context of Indian scenario
Etiology of choking varies according to the age group and different preventive and management strategies are required for different age groups to tackle this problem. We hereby discuss this problem according to different age groups and we have made an attempt to recommend some preventive strategies keeping in mind Indian scenario. Although data from India is not much, but some common strategies which other nations are following can also be applied to the Indian Population, thus preventing these fatal choking episodes.
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Indian Journal of Community Health; Vol. 31 No. 2 (2019)
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Hand washing agents and surface disinfectants in times of Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
Kapoor, Abhilasha
University College of Medical Sciences & GTB Hospital, Delhi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2694-0223
Saha, Rumpa
University College of Medical Sciences& GTB Hospital, Delhi
Coronavirus pandemic has led to thousands of cases and hundreds of deaths worldwide. India, too, is on the verge of this health risk at the national scale. The only measures to prevent this pandemic from spreading are physical distancing, hand hygiene, and surface disinfection, and wearing of appropriate masks. Many hand sanitizers and surface cleaning agents are being made available which are being claimed to be virucidal and to be effective against coronavirus. Here, we present a review of the hand washing agents and surface disinfectants which have virudical properties and are effective against coronaviruses. This review will help dispel misconceptions about various hand washing agents and surface disinfectants and also help to make informed decisions regarding these items.
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Conscientious Objections during COVID-19 Pandemic
Gupta, Deepak
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
Globally evolving COVID-19 pandemic has raised major questions which may have catastrophic implications like absence of universal facemask use, misunderstanding implications of SARS-CoV-2 test results, ventilator related mortality, cytokine reduction technology and anti-viral treatments being in their infancy still, failure to update advanced healthcare directives during pandemic, and overlooked home hospice options for COVID-19 patients when terminally ill. Moreover, there are inquisitive and interesting avenues worth exploring and innovating during COVID19 pandemic like “cold” viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 uniquely choosing airways which normally and naturally have temperatures much lower than core body temperatures, potential therapeutic role (if any) of facemask usage, potential role of natural disinfection by sunlight and its component ultraviolet-C which is used for artificial cleansing, potential bimodal immune response against SARS-CoV-2, and exploration into BCG vaccination based non-specific protection against intracellular pathogens with SARS-CoV-2 itself being an intracellular pathogen. Summarily, I am praying that the natural delays in establishing reproducible evidence during COVID-19 pandemic should not turn the humanity as we know today into a historical evidence.
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Indian Journal of Community Health; Vol. 32 No. 2 (Supp) (2020)
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Routine immunization services during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
Ranganathan, Ranjitha
University College of Medical Sciences and GTB Hospital, Delhi
Khan , Amir Maroof
University College of Medical Sciences and GTB Hospital, Delhi
Routine immunizations (RI) keep the infectious diseases under control in the community. However, during the coronavirus pandemic, to prevent the associated exponential rise in the number of cases, it became necessary to stop routine health services across the country. Routine Immunization also had to be discontinued. It is to be realized however that the risk of vaccine-preventable diseases is gradually increasing in direct proportion to the delay in administering vaccinations to eligible children. It’s likely that we will face outbreaks of VPD if we keep RI halted for weeks together. Various dimensions of RI need to be examined from the perspective of the COVID-19 pandemic ranging from vaccine hesitancy to operationalization of services. In this article, we highlight this hidden problem, which has the potential to further challenge our already challenged health and healthcare-related situation. The domains which deserve careful consideration are discussed to supporting policymakers in making informed decisions in this regard.
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Testing and Lockdown; how much & to what extent? - An epidemiological dilemma
Zaman , Forhad Akhtar
Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences, Gangtok, Sikkim
Kundapur, Rashmi
K.S.Hegde Medical Academy, Nitte University, Mangalore
Testing and lockdown is the strategy planned to work on reducing the COVID-19 death. there are different views of community transmission and testing strategy. The views of lockdown also have various idea and scenarios which is thought for Pandemic like COVID-19.
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Impending scope of Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in the post COVID19 pandemic era: An opportunity call
Kalpana, Pachillu
Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar (IIPHG) Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3847-221X
Trivedi, Poonam
Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar (IIPHG) Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
Patel, Krupali
Center For Development Research (ZEF), Bonn, Germany https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5082-7255
Yasobant, Sandul
Center For Development Research (ZEF), Bonn, Germany https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1770-8745
Saxena, Deepak
Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar (IIPHG), Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
COVID19 pandemic is now testing health systems of countries globally irrespective of geographical location, environmental conditions, and population demographics. Among various prevention strategies as suggested by WHO and others, hand hygiene has emerged as the most important public health preventive measure to control similar outbreaks in the past (SARS & MERS) also including the current COVID19 pandemic. The COVID19 pandemic provides a well-timed opportunity to stress the importance of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in the healthcare facilities (HCFs) and optimize infection prevention control across the globe. It also gives an opportunity to extend beyond conventional WASH and includes domains of biomedical waste management, Infection Prevention, and Control activities and also environmental hygiene. This perspective piece elaborates on the importance of optimal WASH and future scopes in HCFs during the post COVID19 pandemic era.
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COVID-19 and Face Masks – To Use or Not to Use!
Ramakrishnan, Devraj
Government Medical College, Idukki, Kerala https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6005-4233
COVID-19 has evolved into a pandemic in quick time and being a droplet infection, it was quickly understood that prevention is the key. People started to use all types of masks and there was a panic as stocks started running out. Health care workers must use a triple layered surgical mask and those exposed to aerosol generating procedures must use an N 95 mask and these should be kept reserved for them, especially in a resource limited setting. Though initial advice from experts to the general public was not to use a mask in community settings unless they are sick or taking care of someone sick, the advice had to be later modified. Though CDC Atlanta currently advices everyone with no symptoms to wear cloth masks in the community, WHO opines there is no clear evidence to advise for or against mask use in the community. However, WHO encourages countries advising community mask use as it can generate useful evidence. Along with mask use, practicing all other preventive measures such as handwashing, cough etiquette, social distancing, quarantine and isolation are of utmost importance, without which, using surgical masks or even N95 masks, will not be much effective in the community setting.
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Tobacco: An invisible and immediate threat for COVID 19
Garg, Suneela
Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2196-1607
Deshmukh, Chetna
Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4772-4992
One of the major steps to prevent damage due to any pandemic is to focus on risk factors related to the disease. Tobacco consumption is emerging as a major factor out of all for COVID 19. There is hardly any country who has warned the public about this or has made the Tobacco control measures stringent in view of COVID 19. Factors making tobacco consumers more vulnerable to COVID 19 infections are low immunity, damaged cilia in smaller air ways leading to decreased lung capacity and previous history of respiratory illness. Smokers have more expression of ACE2 receptor gene which is also responsible for SARS-COV-2 virus replication in host. More viral load makes smokers potent “carrier”. COVID 19 can be transmitted via tobacco consumers by sharing of smoked tobacco and release of vapour droplets. Spitting of smokeless tobacco in public places puts community at risk. Cardiovascular diseases and cancers caused by tobacco consumption act as comorbidities aggravating the symptoms in COVID 19 infection. Scope of FCTC framework can be extended to address prevention and control of COVID 19. Recommendations: tobacco products should be banned immediately to control the spread. MPOWER strategy of FCTC can be utilized in this pandemic to prevent transmission.
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COVID-19: Group testing and digital technology “Aarogya Setu” - the need of the hour
Alagappan, Uma
SRM Medical College Hospital and Research Irungalur, Tiruchirapalli, India
Nagarajan, Prabhusaran
SRM Medical College Hospital and Research Irungalur, Tiruchirapalli, India https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5983-9092
Ponniah, Thirumalaikolundusubramanian
SRM Medical College Hospital and Research Irungalur, Tiruchirapalli, India
Goyal, Ramchandra
SRM Medical College Hospital and Research Irungalur, Tiruchirapalli, India https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5410-6025
The importance of group testing, efficient utilization of the diagnostic tests and its applications are highlighted. Though it has advantages, the challenges and constraints and the need for the policy from the concerned authorities to implement group testing in a reliable manner with competent persons were brought out. Thus, with group testing and the use of digital technology “Aarogya Setu” in India, we are confident that we will be able to diagnose cases and implement surveillance activities successfully. Popularization of “Aarogya Setu” by all categories of healthcare workers, teachers, women self help groups and other users of android mobile phones in the interest of the Nation and community at large, towards disease containment were cited. However, the ethical aspects of deployment of such kind of approach as part of a multidimensional public health response, and its usefulness in infectious disease outbreaks have to be monitored.
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COVID 19 pandemic: Lesson learned by South Korea and its application with India’s perspective
Sinha, Smita
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1188-5970
Chandra, Rishita
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh
A novel coronavirus named as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in December 2019, in Wuhan city of Hubei province of China, which got transmitted throughout the nation and even world. It was declared as a Public Health Emergency by WHO on January 30th 2020, due to the increase in the number of cases reported from various regions of WHO with the evidence of human to human transmission. (1)
Spread of COVID-19 across the globe: China reported first COVID-19 death on January 11th 2020. After a few weeks, 830 cases were diagnosed in China along with 26 reported deaths. By January 20, Wuhan was placed under lockdown and China alerted other nations about its spread in various provinces. (2)
This contagious disease had spread to 24 nations outside China-Hong Kong-Macau, by 2nd February. About 172 countries and regions were engulfed by this virus by March 25, 2020. (3) Globally over 3,308,643 cases have been confirmed, over 234,123 deaths have been reported, and around 1,042,981 have recovered as on 30th April 2020. (4)
Controlling the Pandemic COVID 19: success story of the Republic of Korea: Initially, one country which successfully stood out from the rest of the world was South Korea. The country confirmed its first few cases in late January and then reported a surge in the cases a few weeks later. The country was exploded with cases in dozens to hundreds to thousands during late February and early March and launched drive-through testing centers and massive contact tracing.
Almost 909 new cases were identified in a single day of February 29th 2020 and was reported at peak. This data brought the country with 50 million population on the verge of a deluge. But the number of new cases was halved within a time period of just a week. The number of cases reduced to half within four days, and it halved, again the following day. (5)
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Engaging Media with Medical Institutions: Experience from Tertiary Hospital in Eastern India
Parida, Swayam Pragyan
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0809-4588
Bhatia, Vikas
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bibinagar, Hyderabad, Telangana
Sinha, Sonali
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3167-6161
Giri, Prajna Paramita
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Kumar Behera, Binod
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8113-5289
Behaviour change is an important aspect of the successful implementation of any national health program. Social behaviour change among end-user can be possible by imparting the right information in the right quantity to the right audience, at frequent intervals through the proper medium. Mass media, both electronic and print are considered useful modes to deliver all public health-related messages to the people. However, the key is to provide correct information to the media for dissemination. On the other hand, medical colleges have a depth of knowledge on technical know-how but reaching a larger population is quite challenging. Therefore, a team approach should be planned by establishing a partnership between media and medical colleges and then the social behaviour change can be achieved in the desired direction. In lieu of this novel partnership, the Department of Community Medicine and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Bhubaneswar had taken the initiative to bring together media personnel and faculty of medical colleges to chalk and roll out the behaviour change communication for nutrition interventions. This program was highly successful as the liaison helped disseminate the right information to the people. Also, the faculty and residents gained insight into dealing with media and thereby serving the community.
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Harnessing the potential of tobacco cessation programme amidst COVID-19 pandemic in India
Bhatt, Garima
Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5258-7339
Goel, Sonu
Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh
The COVID-19 pandemic of the 21st Century continues to spread, and tobacco users are at a higher risk of contracting the disease. As a measure to contain its spread, many nations have called for various measures like maintaining social distancing norms, the prohibition of spitting in the public place, partial or complete lockdown, and many more. This shutdown episode has disrupted the entire supply chain in our country, and it is quite natural that tobacco users are also experiencing a scarcity of tobacco products, like others. This adverse situation is an opportune moment for the Indian health systems to target tobacco users to motivate, facilitate, and support the cessation process. Additionally, social distancing can be achieved by utilizing and optimizing our existing health services. In our country, we have dedicated regional & national quitlines and m-Cessation facilities for tobacco users who are willing to quit. These initiatives could reduce the risk of COVID among tobacco users, facilitate the tobacco cessation movement, and provide credence to the advocacy for increasing taxes on tobacco products in the country.
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Community Health Officer Post – Potential Concerns
Jani, Vishalkumar J
Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9207-6499
Under Ayushman Bharat Health and Wellness Centre (HWC) initiative, a middle-level health provider post, named Community Health Officer (CHO), is envisioned to bridge the gap between the health system and community. This cadre has multiple roles and responsibilities that mirror what used to be done by the Auxiliary Nurse Midwife (ANM) at sub-center before conversion to HWC. Owing to educational and experience requirements of CHO, and existing other cadres at the sub-center, there may be some concerns related to role ambiguity, interpersonal issues, inter- and intra-cadre conflicts, and non-cooperation challenges.
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A perspective on the widening gap between Covishield vaccine doses in India
Chellamuthu, Lalithambigai
Mahatma Gandhi medical College and Research Institute, Puducherry https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2799-4549
Sarathamani, Sinthu S
Mahatma Gandhi medical College and Research Institute, Puducherry https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4676-9870
Boratne, Abhijit V
Mahatma Gandhi medical College and Research Institute, Puducherry https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7698-303X
The Oxford University-AstraZeneca’s vector-based vaccine called Covishield (ChAdOx1 nCoV- 19 Vaccine) is being manufactured and distributed by Serum Institute of India (SII). National roll out of this vaccine was in a phased manner starting from 16th January 2021. At present, many states are facing shortage of vaccines. Government of India kept changing its policy on dosing gap of Covishield vaccine based on researches. The latest recommendation citing “real-life evidence” from the UK is to extend the two doses of Covishield to 12-16 weeks. This reasonable approach will not only a breathing space for the government but also aids in free up doses for a larger number of people to get their first dose of the vaccine.
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COVID 19 Vaccination strategies in India- A Public Health perspective
Priyanka
Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi
Arora, Ekta
Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi
Debbarma, Shibajee
Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4833-7919
Rasania, Sanjeev Kumar
Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi
COVID-19 has emerged as one of the most challenging pandemics of the recent times. Although physical-distancing and other transmission-mitigation strategies have helped battling this virus in the most effective way, but this will also paradoxically leave the population without immunity to COVID-19 and thus susceptible to additional waves of infection. Thus, to return to pre-pandemic normalcy, safe and effective vaccination programme is required globally with robust vaccination strategies. This article pens down the important strategies being implemented globally for successful vaccination programme and critically reviewing them from public health perspective.
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Health Communication in Media: An Analytical Study of Coverage of World Blood Donor Day in Leading National Dailies from Jaipur
Pandey, Hemant Kumar
Manipal University Jaipur, India https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2449-7264
Kumar, Subhash
Manipal University Jaipur, India
Dixit, Prabhat
Manipal University Jaipur, India
As we know Print media is known for its credibility. It is believed that whatever is published in newspapers is true and authentic. Newspapers have a wide reach and huge readership and it can be said that campaigning with mass media like newspapers are associated with many benefits. Firstly it can reach a large number of people. Secondly, it is considered to be a credible source of information. Thirdly through the newspapers the readers can be reminded about the issues at hand their beliefs reinforced on regular basis. Newspapers have a large readership throughout the world. They can contribute maximally to health education awareness of people by publishing articles on health related issues. Global daily circulation of newspaper was 5.19 million having a readership of 2.3 billion in 2010. This was 20% more than the internet users worldwide. In the age of internet still newspapers are relevant and represent 8% of total media consumption time (https://www.journalism.org/fact-sheet/newspapers/). In India Registered newspapers are 82,237 and Hindi language newspapers are leading the race followed by English and other regional languages. Thus, we can say that Newspapers are very important tool to disseminate health education among people and it can bring change in society. (http://rni.nic.in/)
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National Policy for Rare Diseases, 2021 – A critical perspective
Dubey, Manju
Raipur Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3890-3558
Kumar, Mohan
KMCH Institute of Health Sciences and Research, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4599-4160
More than 8% of the global population is affected by a rare disease and >50% affected are children (30% of whom will die before 5 years). There are 6,000-8,000 classified rare diseases – 80% are genetically based – with less than 500 FDA approved treatments (or <5% have therapies) available to treat them. Lack of standard definition and community-based epidemiological data in India limits the estimation of prevalence and/or disease burden; though extrapolations at 6% to 8% show 72 to 96 million affected individuals. The Government of India approved the “National Policy for Rare Diseases, 2021” on 30th March 2021. It is a step in the right direction; at the time it necessitates optimal utilization of allocated resources and timely appraisal of the policy itself.
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Indian Journal of Community Health; Vol. 34 No. 2 (2022)
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Is there any Window of Opportunity to Tackle Geriatric Malnutrition?
Khandre, Ruchita Ramesh
Bharatratna Atalbihari Vajpayee Medical College, Mangalwar Peth, Pune, Maharastra https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2810-5918
India has seen an increase in its greying population in recent years. The elderly population has a lot to contribute to society, but various problems like malnutrition can hinder their activities. India has been taking various nutritional interventions but has mainly focused on women and children, while the elderly have been neglected. Even after taking nutritional programmes to national platforms, the sustainability question hovers in the policy makers’ minds. Advanced and novel steps should be taken to ensure the long-term viability of existing programs, which can serve as the foundation for new interventions for the new group. Public health should participate in the new schemes that are currently in place to achieve the other SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), as the SDG 2030 agenda brings different opportunities to act against malnutrition.
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Conceptual understanding of Sustainable Health and Linking Nutrition to Sustainable Development Goals
Juneja, Khushboo
Manipal TATA Medical College, Jamshedpur, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6203-1337
Sinha, Ratnesh
Manipal TATA Medical College, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1788-5952
Nutrition is a development indicator. It indicates advancement in health, education, employment, women’s empowerment, poverty, inequality reduction, and it can help in building peaceful, secure, and stable societies.” It is one of the important components which is directly or indirectly related to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Multiple factors such as education, economic status, occupation, water, sanitation, hygiene, etc are interlinked with nutrition. In this article, we have emphasized the relationship of various SDGs with nutrition. Global and multi-sectorial involvement is required in the battle with malnutrition. Adequately nourished people are more productive and active. By breaking the cycles of hunger and malnutrition, we can create a path for achieving SDGs.
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Unnat Bharat Abhiyan: An Opportunity to participate in a National Program to Implement & Complement Family Adoption Program for Holistic Rural development
Raut, Juhi M
Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education & Research (DU), Sawangi (Meghe), Maharashtra https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4626-2378
Joshi, Abhishek U
Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education & Research (DU), Sawangi (Meghe), Maharashtra https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1892-5242 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1892-5242
Medical education in India is predominantly based on Theoretical and bedside teaching. A significant reorientation is needed in medical education, to allow students to understand the grass root level social health dynamics. National Medical commission introduced Family Adoption program as a modality to address this issue to be implemented by all medical colleges for all students admitted from academic year 2022 onwards. The Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (UBA) is a flagship national program of Government of India for holistic rural development by engaging and enabling higher educational institutions to utilize their expertise for accelerating sustainable growth and development of rural India. The Medical Universities/colleges can participate in Unnat Bharat Abhiyan and utilize its platform for implementation of statutory Family adoption program. We developed a Model where in Health sciences Universities/colleges can leverage their expertise in Health care for benefit of adopted villages and Communities by nurturing their health based on our experience of implementing both Unnat Bharat Abhiyan & Family Adoption Program. We propose various measures in which Health sciences Universities/colleges can implement both programs in sync to complement each other towards common goal of welfare of adopted villages. We believe our model is feasible and can address complementary requirements of Unnat Bharat Abhiyan and Family adoption program and benefit all the stakeholders involved.
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Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene: A Global Imperative for Health
Kishore, Surekha
All India Institute of Medical Sciences Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0813-8621
U, Venkatesh
All India Institute of Medical Sciences Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8059-9364
Verma, Shikhar Kishore
THDC India Limited https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1925-5045
Verma, Shival Kishore
Johns Hopkins University, United States
Walia, Parteek
All India Institute of Medical Sciences Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2962-1014
Clean water, proper sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) can have a significant impact on human health. Lack of financial resources prevent developing nations from making investments in WASH infrastructure, such as water treatment plants and sanitation facilities. Achieving universal access to clean water and sanitation is hampered by poor governance and insufficient policy frameworks. Governments, civil society organizations, and the private sector need to collaborate to invest in infrastructure and technology, promote good hygiene practices, and undertake education and awareness-raising programmes in order to ensure that everyone has access to clean water and sanitation.
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Integrating diversity into the medical curriculum
Shrivastava, Saurabh R
Datta Meghe Medical College, Off-campus centre of Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research, Hingna Road, Wanadongri, Nagpur, Maharashtra https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6102-7475
Shrivastava, Prateek S
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jammu, India https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5290-6312
Joshi, Ahishek
Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research, Sawangi, Wardha, Maharashtra, India
In the field of medical education, diversity refers to the presence and representation of persons from a diversified range of personal backgrounds, experiences, and characteristics across the student community, faculty members, and employees in the institution. The scope of diversity in medical education is immense and it plays a vital role in creating an effective learning environment. Once students are exposed to a group of diverse students and patients during their undergraduate training, there is a significant improvement in cultural competence, which becomes crucial in our mission to deliver patient-centered care. Considering the merits of diversity in the medical curriculum for medical students, there is an indispensable need to take specific measures to ensure that diversity is integrated in the curriculum, as it will also ensure the delivery of equitable and culturally competent medical care. As important is to ensure the integration of diversity into medical curriculum, equal importance has to be given to the measurement of various initiatives that have been taken to promote diversity in medical education. In conclusion, diversity in medical education is the need of the hour to create a fruitful learning environment for medical students. This calls for the need to take measures for the integration of diversity into the medical curriculum and subsequently identify strategies and indicators to measure and monitor the progress of diversity initiatives in medical institutions.
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Navigating the Ethical Landscape: Implementing Machine Learning in Smart Healthcare Informatics
Sharma, Animesh Kumar
Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar-Delhi G.T. Road, Phagwara, Punjab https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6673-319X
Sharma, Rahul
Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar-Delhi G.T. Road, Phagwara, Punjab https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8880-7527
The integration of Machine Learning (ML) into healthcare informatics holds immense promise, revolutionizing patient care and treatment strategies. However, as this technology advances, it brings forth ethical challenges crucial for careful navigation. ML offers unprecedented abilities to analyze vast healthcare data, leading to personalized medicine and improved outcomes. Yet, ethical concerns emerge, notably in privacy protection, algorithm bias, transparency, informed consent, and data quality. Transparency, explainability, and patient autonomy in decision-making processes are crucial to foster trust and accountability. Striking a balance between innovation and compliance, ensuring data quality, and promoting human-AI collaboration are essential. Addressing these challenges demands adherence to ethical frameworks, continuous monitoring, multidisciplinary governance, education, and regulatory compliance. To fully harness ML's potential in healthcare while upholding ethical standards, collaboration among stakeholders is imperative, ensuring patient welfare remains central amid technological advancements. Ethical considerations must be embedded at every stage of ML implementation to maintain an ethical, equitable, and patient-centered healthcare system.
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Siblings On Artificial Intelligence: “It Is All About The Bottom Line, Period!”
Gupta, Divya
Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences, Swami Rama Himalayan University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
Gupta, Deepak
Wayne State University/Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan, United States https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3643-6781
It may appear to be a wordy jargon but moral compass, ethical compass and legal compass in artificial intelligence are nothing but about the bottom line and the bottom line is whether humans and their systems will co-exist with artificial intelligence or whether artificial intelligence will outlast (outlive) humans and their systems.
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